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Witnesses watched as a man fled out of the driver's side of the SUV and ran past the bars and restaurants on Braddock Avenue.

"It's amazing the guy was even running after he wrecked. He was limping when he was running up the sidewalk," said witness Brian Jones.

But police officers chased the man down. He was put in the back of a patrol car about 8 p.m. A short time later, the man was loaded into a stretcher while wearing a neck brace and was taken to a hospital for treatment.

Sources said the incident began with a suspected drug deal between two men in Monroeville before one man carjacked the other.

Churchill police officers saw the SUV in their area, and the chase began.

When the suspect crashed in Regent Square, police said they found heroin and a gun.

Bystanders said they could have been walking down the part of the sidewalk where the SUV barreled out of control.

"If someone would have been walking there, they would've probably been killed," said Jones.